Must Win

Today's matchup is a must-win game for the Browns and for Butch Davis in particular. It's been a tumultuous two weeks (Davis' head-in-the-sand comments aside) and this game will show us whether all this off-the-field activity has positively or negatively affected the team. Heck, I suppose it could have not affected the team at all but, at 3-6, that would be considered a negative development in my book.

For Davis, his ass is on the line. He's exercised his power and presumably brought the troops into line and showed 'em who's boss. But the questions are surfacing, both in and outside of Cleveland. You just get the feeling something is on the horizon...

Anyway, a loss today effectively ends the season and the preseason can begin. A win and the games are stil meaningful and the hoped-for growth towards a great 2004 will have begun, maybe, at least according to coach. I'll be at the game, judging the results instantly along with another 77K people. How I long for Holcomb to tear it up... but it's just as likely this site gets a lot more traffic next week.